What is Cajun language?
Louisiana. The Cajun language is a mixture of French, Indian, African , and English. It is mostly French, but when a French word is not known, the English word is thrown in. Sometimes a French word is thrown in when the English word is not known.Cajun French is a spoken language mainly. The old cajun people who passed the language down to their descendants rarely went to school, and if they did, they went to school here in America, so only English was taught. Speaking French was discouraged. They certainly were never taught to read and write in French. Unfortunately, since the 1960’s , there has been a drastic decline in children being taught to speak French, although most children have a Cajun accent and know several French expressions and words. Today the children are being taught French, not Cajun French, in the elementary schools,and in many instances by teachers who are not Cajun because we have so few teachers who are fluent in French and qualified to teach it. from :
